Terms of Use

Your agreement with us

In these Terms of Use, a reference to “we” and “us” means Mills Oakley Lawyers Pty Ltd 079 480 943 (Mills Oakley). A reference to “you” or “your” in these Terms is a reference to any person, accessing, reviewing or using the Mills Oakley website currently located at www.millsoakley.com.au (Mills Oakley Website).

By using or accessing the Mills Oakley Website you agree to be bound by these terms and conditions (Terms of Use).

What the Mills Oakley Website does

The purpose of the Mills Oakley Website is to provide you with information about Mills Oakley Lawyer’s culture, employees and the legal services we provide. On occasion we may also provide portal services for clients to access information.

Not legal advice

Content on the Mills Oakley Website, and any publications referred to is general information and provided as guide only. It is not intended to nor does it constitute legal advice and must not be relied upon. We advise you to seek professional legal advice before acting or relying on the information on the Mills Oakley Website, or any of our publications.

Your use of the Mills Oakley Website and the receipt of any information from us does not create nor is it intended to create a solicitor-client relationship between you and Mills Oakley.

Interactive services

Some Mills Oakley clients will utilise the interactive portal services (Interactive Services) available on the Mills Oakley Website to access information about their particular matters. Information that is available through Interactive Services is provided for convenience only and Mills Oakley does not warrant its accuracy or that it is up to date and complete.

Use of this site and Access

You may access the Mills Oakley Website at any time, unless we have restricted access to perform necessary maintenance, updates or upgrades. Your ability to access the Mills Oakley Website will otherwise depend on factors out of our control and we do not take or share any responsibility or provide any warranties that the Mills Oakley Website will be accessible at all times.

Through the Mills Oakley Website, you may view, cache, browse, display, print or download a copy of any content featured on the Mills Oakley Website to your computer, PROVIDED THAT YOU:

use it for personal use only and not for any purposes that are commercial, unlawful or may prejudice the reputation or interests of Mills Oakley; and

keep confidential all passwords and logins supplied to you by Mills Oakley;

do not hide, deface, alter or delete any copyright symbol, trade mark or other proprietary rights notice;

do not hack into, change or otherwise knowingly transmit a virus or otherwise damage the Website or any information contained within it.

do not link it to another website;

do not breach any other terms of these Terms of Access or other Mills Oakley Policies such as our Privacy Policy and our Social Media Policy.

Technical information and Security

The transmission of data over the internet is not always secure. Although we endeavour to secure this Website, we are not liable for any breaches of security and you use this Website entirely at your own risk. We do not warrant that functions available on this Website will be uninterrupted or error free, free of viruses or programming bugs or interferences due to factors outside our control.

Your ability to access our Website will depend on factors out of our control and we do not take any responsibility or provide any warranties that this Website will be accessible through all web borrowers or that it will be accessible at all times.

You acknowledge that it is your responsibility to implement sufficient procedures and virus checks (including anti-virus and other security checks) to satisfy your particular requirements for the accuracy of data input and output.

Intellectual Property

The Mills Oakley Website contains intellectual property including trade marks, confidential information and copyright, together with any goodwill or reputation and intellectual property rights subsisting in those things. You should assume that intellectual property on this Website is owned by Mills Oakley or third parties, and unless permitted by law, you must not copy, reproduce, transmit, display or otherwise distribute any of that intellectual property in whole or in part without our prior written consent.

Suspension or Termination of Access

We reserve the right to suspend or terminate access to our Website at our sole discretion if we believe that you have breached these Terms. Where this occurs, we will endeavour to notify you of the breach and ways in which you can remedy them.

Third Party Websites

Our Website contains links to third party websites over which we have no control. We are not responsible for the operation, security levels, content or any other aspect of any third party websites.

Links to third party websites are provided solely for your convenience and do not indicate our endorsement or affiliation of them or their products and services. We make no representations or warranties about the information contained on those websites. We are not liable for the content on those websites.

Comments

You may provide comments, feedback, ideas or suggestions (Comments) through the Contact Us section of the Mills Oakley Website. By uploading, transmitting, posting or otherwise making available any Comments you:

grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, licence to use, reproduce, edit and/or exploit such Comments for any commercial or non-commercial purpose;

warrant that in providing your Comments will not have breached any laws or regulations or these Terms; and

you give your unconditional and irrevocable consent to any act by us which would otherwise, but for your consent, infringe your moral rights (as defined by the Copyright Act 1968) which you may have in respect of your Comments.

We reserve the right (but have no obligation) to:

prevent the upload, transmission, posting or otherwise making available any Comment from a user of the Mills Oakley Website;

review, modify, reformat, reject or remove any Comments uploaded, posted, transmitted or otherwise made available through the Mills Oakley Website that, in our opinion, violates these Terms or otherwise has the potential to harm, endanger or violate the rights of any person; and

monitor the use of the Mills Oakley Website, and store or disclose any information that we collect, including in order to investigate compliance with these Terms or for the purposes of any police investigation or governmental request.

You agree to accept full responsibility for any Comment you upload, post, transmit or otherwise make available on the Mills Oakley Website and you agree that we will not be liable for any such Comment uploaded, posted, transmitted or otherwise made available on the Mills Oakley Website.

You must not post Comments containing links or references to other services.

By allowing you to upload, post, transmit or otherwise make available your Comments on the Mills Oakley Website, we are not to be taken as having endorsed any opinion, advice or statement made by you.

Disclaimers

While we endeavour to ensure the accuracy and completeness of the information contained on this Website, that information may contain errors and omissions and is liable to change. Mills Oakley makes no warranties and accepts no responsibility for any loss or damage you may suffer as a result or your reliance on any of the material on this Website (including any as to the quality, accuracy, completeness or fitness for any particular purpose of such material) or in relation to any material of a third party website.

Our liability

Mills Oakley makes no warranties or representations about this website or any of the content. We exclude, to the maximum extent permitted by law, any liability which may arise as a result of the use of the Mills Oakley website, its content or the information on it. Where liability cannot be excluded, any liability incurred by us in relation to the use of the Mills Oakley Website or its contents is limited to the extent provided for under the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth)

You agree that Mills Oakley will not be liable for any direct or indirect loss, or damage, whatsoever (including through negligence) arising out of, or in any way related to, the use of the Mills Oakley Website or any other third party linked website.

Subject to our above disclaimers, under no circumstances will we be liable for any direct, indirect, consequential, special, punitive or other losses, damages, liabilities, claims or expenses you or others may suffer including damages for loss of profits, loss of opportunity, business interruption or loss or corruption of data or information from the use of the Mills Oakley Website. We are not responsible to you or anyone else for any loss suffered in connection with the use of the Mills Oakley Website, any of its contents, for any loss incurred as a result of damage to your or another person’s computer system or the transmission of any computer viruses.

You indemnify and agree to keep us indemnified against any loss or damage or costs incurred by us in connection with your breach of these terms or of any other legal obligation by you or your use of or conduct on the Mills Oakley Website.

Privacy Policy

Our compliance with privacy legislation is set out in our separate Privacy Policy which may be accessed from the following link: Privacy Policy

General

These Terms are in addition to, and not in derogation of, any other terms or conditions that appear elsewhere on the Mills Oakley Website and must be interpreted accordingly.

These terms may be varied from time to time and without notice to you. Please ensure that you review these Terms of Use regularly as you will be deemed to have accepted a variation if you continue to use the Mills Oakley Website after a variation to them has been posted.

If any part of these Terms of Use are determined to be illegal, invalid or otherwise unenforceable or void that part shall be severed to the extent necessary and the remainder terms shall continue in full force and effect.

No waiver of any breach of these Terms of Access will be construed as a waiver of any other breach of these Terms of Use.

Information on this site is provided for Australian residents only.

Jurisdiction

These Terms of Access are governed by the laws in force of the State of Victoria, Australia. You submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the Courts of Victoria, Australia in respect to any claim made by either party against the other which in any way arises out of these Terms of Access.

Mills Oakley is a leading national law firm with offices in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Canberra and Perth. With over 100 partners and more than 670 staff, we offer strong expertise across all key commercial practice areas.

From origins in Melbourne in 1864, Mills Oakley has grown to become a domestic leader in legal services with a client base of ASX-200 listed companies, mid-sized corporations, the public sector and not-for-profit organisations.